A Chorister's Front Row Seat on History
Singing for the Soviets during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
October 9th, 2012
The Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra’s 1962 tour of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union was more than anyone bargained for. Jody Kerssenbrock, then a 25-year-old chorister, remembers what it was like to be in "enemy" territory during the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the world came as close as it ever has to a nuclear war.
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